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Our first hot-off-the-press discount delights of 2012 include a stage adaptation of the great children’s classic Swallows and Amazons and Love in Idleness from Terence Rattigan, published together with Less Than Kind, an earlier version of the play which was never staged during Rattigan’s lifetime
And then there’s Thrill Me! – The Leopold & Loeb Story, a critically acclaimed two-character musical drama which explores the unusual love story behind the “crime of the century”
We’ve also Sign of the Times, a comedy two-hander from Tim Firth, and from StageStars Recordings, the Vocal & Backing Tracks of Urinetown, one of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years
Reviewed by Julie Petrucci.
Doris Richardson-Hall has been writing to the AS magazine since February 2009.
Chris Avery reviews this production by the Waterbeach Community Players.
Amateur Stage Expo is delighted to welcome Ambassador Theatre Group as a major sponsor.
Reviewed by Jane Dickerson.
Amateur Stage Expo is delighted to welcome Theatrical Rights from New York as our first international exhibitor.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much-loved story Matilda arrived in London in November after opening in Stratford last year – and the show has immediately been hailed as a five-star smash by the critics and audiences alike.
Philip Ayckbourn is following in his father’s footsteps.
